Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recognition of Russia is a vital factor in the success of the NRA. The Recovery Act is now limping along because of its inability to revive the capital goods industries. If the United States recognizes Russia, a ready and expanding market for machinery and building materials will be opened. For this reason alone, Russia should be recognized...
...magnificent epitome of the surgical art. " 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,' but only the surgeon knows how uneasy lies the head that wields the knife. It requires such intrepidity, such clairvoyance. Cutting must be done with such consummate skill that no unnecessary or vital structure be injured. The layman thinks of an operation as purely a wielding of the knife. The surgeon actually does much more in hemostasis, in clean removal of pathological conditions, in the restoration of normal relations, in the sewing of tissues, and the closure of wounds. This is itself an exquisite...
...quiet along the Charles! The spirit of restiveness is in the air. It's not the House Plan that makes us think so; it's something much more vital. It was recently announced to a startled world that that same old bell, the bell to which nine generations of sons of Harvard have awakened, is, by presidential decree, henceforth and forever more to be silent--gone forever...
...inquiry has especially arranged this meeting at the present time in order to give students a chance to hear an authoritative discussion of the vital issues involved in the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, the breakdown of the Disarmament Conference, and the menace of Hitlerism. The officers feel that there is much of interest to undergraduates in the recent developments abroad, both in Europe and in the Far East on which to base the subjects of their meetings...
...food, transmits water to the infant. The salt helps to retain water in the baby's system. The gelatin also raises temperature, which is subnormal at birth, and elevates blood pressure, which the shock of birth has lowered. The dextrose supplies calories for the babe's first vital activities...